Post a Comment. Thank you for the hits. In this post we will present a collection of Medieval Arrowheads taken from museum collections- private visits or internet sources, but also and most importantly, from auctions and private collections from around the world. The period that we are interested is from the 8th to 16th century CE. Arrowheads which are presented at auctions and in private collections are unique, in the sense that they are appearing for a short time on the net before they disappear again.
Where possible we try to retain this information for the benefit of historical research. We have tried to provide the most accurate information for each item and respect the copyrights of different individuals and museums and we apologise in advance if our info or the credits given are maybe not correct sometimes.
We are open to corrections and opinions. Very often there are groups of arrowheads from different ages and geographical areas. This collection will be updated periodically with new finds.
Total images: 91 Photographs 86 - Drawings 5. A large number of arrow and crossbow bolt heads. Large broad head with incurving crescentic barbs, much corroded. Overall length: mm 4. Weight: 1 oz. Very large broad head with straight barbs. The group also includes several of the important military type 16 form.
Dimensions: Overall length: 77 mm 3. Weight: 0. Weight: 7g 0. In excavated condition, including a number of swallow tail form; one with a near pyramidal tip and tapering tang; another for stunning game; and seven with small pyramidal tips with tapering tangs. Broadheads, European, 15th CE Broadheads were used in peacetime for hunting large game because of their ability to cause large, disabling wounds. In war they were used against horses and unarmoured men.
Museum description. They had originally been developed to pierce mail, but later proved more effective than other types against plate armours. Great iron arrowhead. Two-bladed, socketed type. Medieval iron arrowhead 14thth century CE. Found at the site of the attack on Coburg Castle in Germany. Medieval Europe, 13thth century CE. Nice iron crossbow-bolt. Found at the site of a Medieval Austro-Hungarian battlefield in former Czechoslovakia, central Europe.
Beautiful long iron crossbow-bolt. A mixed group of iron socketted swallowtail arrowheads, two with tips curled over after impact. Circa 14th century CE. A socketted arrowhead with lozengiform blade, the centre with a vesica-shaped void. Iron, Slight loss to base of socket. Circa 12thth century CE. A hand-forged iron arrowhead with bodkin point, bulb and four-bar cage developing into the closed socket. Iron, 33 grams, 13 cm.
Medieval fire head from Lund, Sweden on display at Kulturen museum in Lund. Around 13thth century. A mixed group of iron arrowheads, each with socket to receive the shaft and with broad, heavily barbed heads; two with twisted shafts; grams total, A mixed group of iron arrowheads comprising: one triangular-section, tanged; one leaf-shaped, tanged; one triangular, tanged; one chisel-ended, tanged; two triangular, socketted; one swallowtail, socketted. This arrowhead could have been hand forged by a London blacksmith.
Each arrowhead was created out of iron and designed for a specific purpose, such as warfare or hunting. When completed, the arrowhead was sent to a fletcher, who attached it to a wooden dowel along with fletching, feathers that are attached to the tail of the arrow for stability, at which point the completed arrows were ready to be bought or delivered and used.
These blacksmiths were skilled tradesmen and would have been part of one of the many guilds of London. They were middle class and members of a guild, yet not rich enough to be able to make use of all the products that they made. It is also possible that this arrowhead was produced nearer to rural hunting grounds, although only the king and a few noblemen had the money to employ a blacksmith full time.
A chunk of iron became an arrowhead when it was created by a blacksmith. It was then finished, a process that involves sharpening and perfecting the final product. This arrowhead then went on to become part of another product, the arrow, which was the usable end product of the process. While this arrowhead required more iron than one meant for warfare because of the pronounced barbs, it was not significantly harder to craft than an arrowhead intended for war.
Any increase in cost was also mitigated by the reusability of any arrowheads that could be recovered from a hunt. The price of this arrowhead is hard to assess as it would have varied based on the skill of the smith, the quality of the iron, and the year in which it was made and sold. The blacksmith trade included many different specialized roles.
These men were skilled craftsmen responsible for creating objects for every economic sector. Working at their forges, set either into the ground or at waist height, a blacksmith would have been able to make everything from a horseshoe to a kitchen knife. The items which they specialized in making would have been held to a standard set by their guild.
Blacksmiths worked usually in two-man teams, one smith and one assistant, although on some smaller projects they were able to work alone. As with other crafts, wives were an important part of the workforce working at the bellows or as an assistant, in addition to their duties as the woman of the household.
It is likely that an arrowsmith, who was a blacksmith who specialized in creating arrows, crafted this product, and while his main objective would have been to prepare arrowheads for war, he would also have been hired to craft objects for sport during lulls in warfare and times of peace.
Accessed September 26, This made it impossible to hit small animals, even at close range. The aerodynamics are such that, even after being fired out of a powerful longbow, the arrow would not remain on a consistent path for very long requiring the hunter to creep close to their prey or close the distance by other means during a hunt.
This led to the practice, and art, of hunters stalking their prey and setting up raised platforms from which to shoot. This page from the Livre de la Chasse manuscript depicts the hunting of a wild boar with a bow.
The hunter stands on a platform that keeps him close to the boar. He needs to be fairly close to his prety because his arrow, which has pronounced barbs, has a swallowtail arrowhead. This arrowhead was likely used in sport hunting when large parties went out in search of a quarry. These hunts were designed to provide entertainment for the members of the gentry, who would have been the primary users of this item.
This type of hunting was reserved for the elite of society as a show of status and wealth and was conducted inside a private park that was enclosed with an earth wall and wooden fence so that it could be securely stocked.
Of the members of the freemen of London, the upper class of the population, only a minuscule number would have been rich enough to own property outside of the city. The general population of London, therefore, would not have been able to hunt. While there was poaching, it is unlikely that the poachers came from London and would have been able to lug an enormous deer all the way back to the city, even if they had the means and opportunity to kill it.
Even at their inception, it is unlikely these rights included large game because specific royal permission was required to hunt large game, especially deer. In any event, these rights would only have applied to the freemen. This arrowhead could have been hand forged by a London blacksmith. Each arrowhead was created out of iron and designed for a specific purpose, such as warfare or hunting.
The CT scan technique utilizes computerized x-ray images to produce cross sectional views and three dimensional images. The CT scan of this vessel shown above clearly reveals drilled holes and some attempted salvage work by its prehistoric maker. Also at the museum are some of the fine Arkansas points on display at the museum.
At the top right are a group of 13 Agee gem points plus one Hayes point all made of Novaculite. These were all found by Glenn Kizzia at the Kidd Site. They each measure approximately one inch in length. Below those is an extremely rare Ozan Creek point. It is the type example that is pictured in Perino's guide. It is made of Novaculite. An unusual aspect of this style is that they are flaked and then ground. Below that on the left is a fantastic serrated Alba point from the Crenshaw Mound site in Arkansas.
To the right of that is a translucent Hayes point made of Novaculite also from Arkansas. To the left of this grouping is an incredible Dalton style point found in Arkansas that measures over 7 3 A inches long.
The oblique flaking on this late Paleo point is truly superb. The above grouping presents some of the finest Quapaw pottery ever created. At center left is a concentric circled teapot from Yell County, Arkansas.
Traces of the original black pigment are still visible. At bottom left is a teapot in the form of an otter. Both are from Lee County, Arkansas. At top right is a polychrome long necked bottle utilizing a stylized mace motif as its decoration. The fine effigy teapot in the center right is from Phillips County, Arkansas, and utilizes unusual concentric circles and a "daisy" around the hole on top.
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